Some days, for no reason whatsoever, I just wake up sad. Perhaps it's due to a half-remembered dream, perhaps some chemical imbalance, or perhaps it's just a reaction to waking up yet again under the same old sky, but sometimes the world is a pretty bleak place first thing in the morning. I guess this is a very common human condition. We have lots of ways to describe it. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Got a case of the doldrums. Not a morning person. In fact, I imagine that at least half the population is more likely to sigh than smile when they first open their eyes on a new day. Can this really be the human condition? Why am I bummed out that I have to go live my life? I like my life, don't I?
I find myself wondering a lot lately about how much things have changed in the recent past. It seems like there's so much stuff ALL-NEW every day in our modern world, and I wonder sometimes if there are as many new moods and feelings in the world as there are new technologies and ways of life? Did people two hundred years ago worry that they may be abnormal for being grumpy when they first woke up? Or were they just happy that none of their teeth fell out overnight? I really wish that there was a way to look back into the past in a verifiable fashion and see these things for ourselves. Not necessarily time travel, but a way to look back in time without interfering in the events that transpired and to really understand the human story. I read a lot, but history is written by the victors and it's just not the same as seeing the truth from an unbiased perspective. If we understood how we got to this place, perhaps we could see where we are meant to go? That's one thing I really appreciate about the modern world and one reason I really appreciate this ability to blog. In the future, 100 years from now or whenever, people will be able to look back and see in great, fine detail exactly what people all around the world were both doing and thinking about in the early 21st century. In a way, every word that we type into blogs, twitter posts, facebook updates, etc...will define us to future generations. That doesn't even count the millions and millions of online videos. I'm not alone in using the internet in the same way that hunter-gatherers used cave walls. To stand up proudly and exclaim "I WAS HERE!"
Could that be all that is necessary? I may never have the answers I seek and may never know why I wake up in a bad mood most days, but at least by recording that it happens someone someday might figure it all out. Maybe the internet is just one big subconscious for an as-yet unborn life form, and my blog posts will haunt it's dreams and cause it to wake up grumpy, too. Justification at last!!
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